{"id":346,"date":"2010-07-12T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"long-summer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/long-summer-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Summer Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
From “A group of Andros Island Men”, Andros Island, The Bahamas, 1935<\/h5>\n

Source: The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax Collection at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress AFC 509 A3.<\/p>\n

When I made this recording I altered and extended the lyrics to honor a great friend, the late Jim Jewell of the Isle of Wight who build a beautiful steam launch for his wife Madge (in her honor I meant to re-name it the Lady Margaret <\/em>but – oops – sang Lady Violet<\/em> instead).<\/p>\n

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  1. The day is so long and the wages so small,
    \nOh the day is so long and I want to go home.<\/li>\n
  2. Come on now Sally and leave us go home,
    \nThe day is so long and the wages so small.<\/li>\n
  3. The day is so long and the wages so small.
    \nCome on mister Captain come give me my money.<\/li>\n
  4. I gone tell you now who it was built this fine boat
    \nThat boat, that boat, we launching today.<\/li>\n
  5. I gone tell you now who did build this good boat.
    \nIt was Jim Jewell who build that good boat.<\/li>\n
  6. I want to tell you now what that good boat now she name
    \nOh they gonna name her the Lady Violet<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  7. Let us now go and launch this good boat
    \nyou still gotta work on and launch that good boat<\/li>\n
  8. Pull this boat down into the water
    \nWe pulling this boat down into the sea, baby<\/li>\n
  9. Lady Margaret<\/em> is now down on the water
    \nLook at that good boat now into the water<\/li>\n
  10. The day is so long and the wages so small
    \nThe day is so long and the wages so small.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From “A group of Andros Island Men”, Andros Island, The Bahamas, 1935 Source: The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax Collection at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress AFC 509 A3. When I made this recording I altered and extended the lyrics to honor a great friend, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}